[RFC] killing versioned file.join

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> For same model fetches, we want the following:
> knit->knit:
>  * all text knit hunks, per versionedfile, topological order
>  * ditto inventory
>  * ditto signatures
>  * ditto revisions
> knit->pack:
>  * as per knit->knit works fine
> pack->knit:
>  * as per knit->knit
> pack->pack (occurs when fetching from a RemoteRepository only):
>  * hunks from each pack, in forward-read IO order

> So - 
> repository.get_data_stream_for_search(search, data_order,
> complete_inventory)
> data_order in ("read-optimal", "nonatomic-insert")
> complete_inventory in (False, True)
> 
> is my proposed replacement API.
> 
> Thoughts? I plan to hack on this now, so an uncrafted reply now is
> better than a crafted one tomorrow.

I'm left wondering what you plan to do about annotated/non-annotated
file texts.

Aaron
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